Automatically connecting to a network share from Linux Mint

It seems that there’s not much out there on automatically mounting a network shared drive on Linux Mint. While these instructions specific Mint, it should work on various other Linux distributions such as Ubuntu as well.

Create your mount point

First, you need to create your mount point. Personally, I usually use something in my home directory, but feel free to use whatever you want. I’m going to assume that you know how to create directories in Linux already.

Edit fstab

Next, you just need to edit your fstab. To so do, enter this in the terminal: